| Show Make It Hot for Cornbread and It'll It Taste Better t ff v a f SVA i 4 I i J r A L L Z 7 N f I nuY n. n i You need to make it hot for cornbread from the moment it goes Into the tha pan for that is the way to get the crisp brown crust which most people like Have the heavy iron pans heated piping hot hof in By VIVIEN GREY YESTERDAY Wealthy Roger Cosgrave Cosgrave Cosgrave Cos- Cos grave had no thought that anything would come between him and his fiancee Emily Perry But he met Lovely Daye and Lovely came be be- be tween Roger knows that Lovelys Lovely's tenement background does not match his but he also knows that there Is 15 more than the girls girl's blond beauty In It all aU He just has left Emily and joined Lovely and now Lovely resists him CHAPTER NINE Oh you dont don't Well Wen I know about you you see I mean this She handed Roger a paper paper paper pa pa- per that had been lying on the table Somebody must have been careless and left it here Roger stared at the printed page Heading the society gossip gossip gossip gos gos- sip was a picture of Emily and himself snapped a few months before at a dog show Their engagement was spoken of their approaching marriage their prominence The perfect fitness of their marriage Lovelys Lovely's eyes were on him with peculiar intentness He knew he should say something What How could you expect anyone to believe you were trying to tobe tobe tobe be honest when you said your heart belonged to two girls But that was true He could feel Emily's cool hands calm poised elegant but holding holding on on just as as' firmly as Lovelys Lovely's more impulsive impulsive im im- passionate expressive ones He Ile sa said d finally I hadn't been trying to hide that from you you Lovely She looked startled creepers Then what were you doing Not exactly angry Not exactly laughing Nor was she crying But Roger could not tell which she was nearest I 1 thought when you brought me up here and then went home last night you night you were so swell and all all X I thought maybe maybe maybe may may- be and then she broke off the flame of her voice overcast Oh h well I 1 dont don't know what I 1 Idid Idid did think Some crazy thing I Iguess Iguess Iguess guess like that like that you might really like me Rapidly Affirms His Love Ltv Lovely lyl I do Quickly from the young man man I do I 1 more than i like you I 1 love f you I could go on and tell you L love you with a consuming passion something so deep and riotous it frightens me It would all be true ButI But I am engaged to that girl in the picture She's wearing wearIng wearing wear wear- ing my ring Were We're supposed to tobe tobe tobe be married within a month There was a forthrightness and honesty about him that would have given a more experienced woman cause to wonder It was wasas wasas wasas as if he had taken his heart and laid it out there for her to see its truthfulness Lovely Daye was blind to the gesture Well U Vell Im I'm engaged too Her voice rose a little mUe as she held up her hand Joes Joe's chip diamond was there a game two can play at But I wasn't playing a game Lovely Tensely l I If It you were fooling me I was fooling you And how Her Herrich Herrich rich full laughter grated a little You didn't have that on your our hand last night Then he had seen a ring ring- on that finger when they first met Lovely laughed as if In appreciation appreciation appreciation of a good joke Of course not dope I took it off oft and put it in my purse Roger stared at herI herI herI her I wasn't trying to deceive decele you he said finally quietly I wouldn't know that big boy I only know you ou did I might have known though Bitterly I might have known what your kind were Engaged to one girl girland girland girland and trying to have some fun with another The sort of fun fan your girls girl's too good for I 1 presume presume presume pre pre- sume She's probably one of those girls girls girls-a a petticoat wired for sound Difficult to Pierce Lovelys Lovely's Wrath Lovely Stop Dont Don't ever let let me hear you say say such things again That isn't the way I 1 feel about you at all Youre going to to pay for th this s Ignoring him she went on mad mad- ly pay Ill I'll get even with you if if- if But Rogers Roger's controlled voice cut through her passionate cry I w want nt to pay Lovely I 1 mean to But not in the way you think I want to do what's right I 1 haven't meant to trick you I 1 he paused and something in him seemed to be breaking up Ive been tricked myself Lovely he said finally You cant can't kid me You think be because ause youre you're smooth and hands handsome handsome hand hand- s some me and rich you can get away with anything Emotion anger disappointment ran riot in her voice Well you cant You cant can't I 1 tell you This Is once when youre you're going to pay You'll pay pay pay- His arms were strong Stronger than her resistance They swept the girl mad with something she herself could not understand to his heart and held her there tightly Wordless His face pressed against her hair Until finally her voice came brokenly Oh Roger Roker I 1 cant can't fight with you I cant can't And I dont don't want anything from you I-I- I I 1 She was a little girl broken shattered crying in his arms I know darling his lips warm and urgent against her herskin skin I know You'll YouJI never have to tell me I 1 know all about it it His voice not quite steady for their quarrel had op opened ned the thedoor thedoor thedoor door to passion They were were in love with reality The flame of their emotion ros rosto rose roseto roseto to breathtaking heights pure and burning brightly Roger was was- tensely possessive Lovely pliant pliant- ly submissive All AIl of the anger had bad burned out of herI herI her I dont don't care Roger her voice shaken I 1 dont don't care about anything anything anything any any- thing in the world but you I 1 Iguess Iguess guess I 1 dont don't even care much h how w I 1 have you just so I 1 do I dont don't blame you for anything v Y w. w b the oven and pour the batter in so quickly that it sizzles and starts baking instantly instant m Telegram i Fiction Roger Goes ALONG CAME CINDERELLA TO Dance You cant can't help it that youre you're promised to someone else She was first If she she she- Hush darling His lips on hers silenced her words It isn't going to be like that Its It's not that sort of thing with me I X care I X care enough for both of ofus ofus ofus us Lovely Then what what what- she started to say her eyes lifted to him tear-swept tear luminous I X dont don't know Once more his lips silenced the question be before before be- be before fore she could completely voice S. S it I X only know I 1 love you with witha a passion that tha consume me Well We'll have to work from that basis darling As twilight deepened Roger knew he should be leaving to dress to accompany Emily to Marls Marl's party but Lovely clung to himI himI himI him I cant can't let you go I 1 cantI cant I cant Like a sad chant on her lips Youre going to her Ill I'll die here alone Ill I'll die without you She leaned against him soft all curves and tender impulses It was like uprooting something something something some some- thing from the depths of his heart to go finally Lovelys Lovely's expressive expressive expressive ex ex- ex- ex hands seemed to cling to him long after he was in the car going down the hill He had hada a sense of them with him She had given him a letter to mail It was addressed to GertI GertI GertI Gert I wrote her Im I'm visiting she had said as she gave it to to him Mothers Mother's Voice Quenches Emotional Flame His IDs mothers mother's voice meeting him in the hall hail as he would have hurried up to dress shook him loose from the spell of Lovely Not dressed You and Emily are going to be terribly late for Marls Marl's dinner party You know how Mari hates that sort of thing Any hostess does Emily should have sent you home sooner When two people are areso areso areso so in love love love- her voice trailed into silence as he made his way upstairs Emily hadn't called then to find out What was wrong wrong with him why he hadn't shown up yet He paused on that for an Instant Strange Almost as if It she knew But But she But she couldn't know He pushed the thought aside He called Emily and told her he was sending the chauffeur to take her on ahead Hed He'd fol fol- fol- fol low almost Immediately You know how Mart Marl h hates tes late dinner guests he said He wondered after hed he'd hung up if It Emily's voice l Had ad been strange Taut As if it drawn with concealing tightness over some emotion she did not want to reveal She had had said that would be beall beall bell all ll right Emily rarely rebelled She was too well bred too schooled In soft soft pedaling pedaling her own desires i He h had d p ver seen Emily do anything impulsive or thought thought- less She was really a girl among I girls He could be proud of her Not proud merely while youth gave magic to her quiet beauty But proud through the years in inthe inthe inthe the knowledge that what she did would always be right and fair fairand fairand fairand and gentle Cocktails were delaying dinner dinner dinner din din- ner when he arrived Immaculate immaculate late in summer evening dress Greeted by Flippant Friends Ah Rogers Roger's here Now iNow things can begin a girl breathed as ashe ashe ashe he greeted her Without you darling a party is is' is like Is-like like cocktail hour without handsome men in inthe inthe inthe the mood Come here a moment darling darling dar dar- ling Leah Ware an exciting and daring beauty slipped her arm through his We want you to settle something Weve We've just been arguing about the most important important important im im- im- im step In a girls girl's life I 1 Isay Isay say its it's the one across the threshold threshold threshold thresh thresh- old of her boss's apartment and they're trying to argue me out of it it She pouted beautifully Roger laughed I wouldn't know Leah He was looking for someone Emily Suddenly he wanted to see her hervery hervery hervery very much Her sweet ordered charm was a thing he needed What do you expect of a man in love Hes He's looking for his sweetie pie was someone's gay cry And how I am Roger replied as his hostess approached him Well Roger Marl Mari said with witha a c cool of sh sharp rp edge edge In in her voice olce you tear yourself away She is pretty retty engaging engaging- looking Bett Better r watch your step though though her her sort usually play for keeps not for fun I 1 saw you at Tumble Inn you know Roger had the sensation of having been slapped sharply Then he was aware of Emily standing there She must have heard Or had she He studied her face It revealed nothing Marl Mari could have said it to trap him there him there had been a time when he and Marl Marl but but that was before before be be- fore she had married To be continued |
